The Unholy (2021)
3/10
They sure don't make religious horror like they used to
27 May 2021
Growing up in the 70s, my favorite genre were religious horror films. Since Rosemary's Baby and the Exorcist, there have been some pretty good religious horrors every now and then. But they are far less and less frequent in the present. I don't know if it is the new film directors who don't know how to make them right, they don't care or that society has become almost completely secular. But the current films show little imagination and plagued with mediocrity and inaccuracies, that my affection for this genre has all but disappeared.

Straight off the bat, the CGI creature ruined it right from the beginning for me. There isn't a build up of mystery. This is just another dumb jump scare film. Even the religious statues look dopey.

The writer doesn't understand Catholicism, yet he feels he is qualified to make a Catholic horror movie based on what I suppose might have been watching dozens of other failed films projects and copying their ideas.

This film is a complete disappointment.
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